I had an assignment at university that dealt with the size of a message after being sent through two different types of networks with different packet sizes and network headers. That's all we were ...

A typical User Datagram Protocol/Internet Protocol (UDP/IP) header contains 20 bytes of IP header and eight bytes of UDP header. While UDP headers contain source and destination UDP port addresses, ...

Miss Parts I and II? No need to search or stress–they're right here:Part I Part II. IPv6 Packet Format br>The structure of the IP packet header was modified in IPv6. These changes reflect some of the ...

To ensure that an IP packet makes it to its destination on time, the network and its equipment have to be configured properly. This is one part of Quality of Service (QoS), in which each IP packet ...

Computer engineers learn early on that a core set of protocols are critical to networks. Some of the most important protocols include Internet Protocol (IP), Transaction Control Protocol (TCP), ...

Recently, a significant amount of time has been expended on the discussion of certain numbers. Topics have included 1Gb versus 10Gb, 4K versus 8K, single-frame times (16 or 33 milliseconds), and so ...

Real-world communications over the Internet are becoming more and more widespread. In particular, commercial transactions, which deserve a high level of security, often take place over our ...

In the last issue we started following a packet's journey from the wire up to the higher levels of network stack processing. We left the packet at the end of layer 3 processing, where IP has ...